"To never harbor self-doubt is poison poison for the soul,"

"and these aliens want to inflict their certainties upon us."
-Sadeq, from Charles Stross' Accelerando

“I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children’s story.”

-C.S. Lewis in On Three Ways of Writing for Children

"Responsibility rests upon recognition"

-Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

"I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it."

Homer H. Hickam Jr., Rocket Boys

"A leader needs the truth, but an emperor does not consistently hear it from his underlings."

-James Comey

"The free exchange of ideas is the most valuable intellectual currency."

-Viva Frei

"For as long as humans have clothed themselves with authority of any sort - civil or religious - abuse has followed."

-Terryl L. Givens in Feeding the Flock